Housing will this year displace highways and transport as
the largest area of council capital spending – following the lifting of the
housing revenue account borrowing cap. The government has released figures
showing English councils are predicting an overall 13% rise in capital spending
in 2019/20 (to £28.0bn) compared to last year (£24.7bn). The data show that
councils are budgeting for an increase in capital spending on housing from
£5.9bn to £7.1bn – a rise of 21% over the provisional outturn for last year. With
highways and transport capital spending set to fall from £7.1bn last year to
£6.5bn, housing will now make up the largest of all budget areas. Read more on
the Room 151 website.
John Judge obituary
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As chief quantity surveyor at Manchester city council, my father, John
Judge, who has died aged 91, was part of a team that led the city’s
housebuilding ...
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